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 ACT SECOND.

The same room. The mist still lies heavy over the landscape.

Manders and Mrs. Alving enter from the dining-room.

Mrs. Alving.

[Still in the doorway.] Velbekomme,[1] Mr. Manders. [Turns back towards the dining-room.] Aren't you coming too, Oswald?

Oswald.

[From within.] No, thank you. I think I shall go out a little.

Mrs. Alving.

Yes, do. The weather seems a little brighter now. [She shuts the dining-room door, goes to the hall door, and calls:] Regina!

Regina.

[Outside.] Yes, Mrs. Alving?

Mrs. Alving.

Go down to the laundry, and help with the garlands.

1 A phrase equivalent to the German Prosit die Mahlzeit—"May good digestion wait on appetite."